Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought ...
Swindon has become the first place in the country to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is ...
Cablevision Systems 3rd-quarter profit jumps as it adds more voice customers Cablevision Systems Corp. on Tuesday said its third-quarter profit more than tripled as a sluggish economy didn't deter subscribers from signing up for its digital cable, Internet and phone plans in ...
With 2,200 broadband applications, competition for billions in stimulus dollars is intense The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods ...
State-owned mobile network operator Vinaphone said Tuesday it has begun offering Vietnam's first 3G service, bringing "a revolution" to the country's mobile system. The company is the first to implement the service after it and three other telcoms in April received government ...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission warned Wednesday of "a looming spectrum crisis" if the government fails to find ways to come up with more bandwidth for mobile devices. Julius Genachowski said the government is tripling the amount of spectrum available ...
Clearwire names Alvarion, ZTE as network infrastructure suppliers in launch of 4G WiMAX Clearwire Corp. said Tuesday it named telecoms equipment providers Alvarion Ltd. of Israel and ZTE Corp. of China as network infrastructure suppliers to support its launch of 4G WiMAX ...
GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The World Bank unveiled its $215 million Central African Backbone program on Tuesday, to bring reliable, high-speed, low-cost internet access to the region for the first time. Despite being the fastest-growing telecoms market in the world, Africa's broadband growth ...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Fast uptake of free-to-air mobile TV services in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe is breathing new life into the ailing mobile TV broadcasting market, chip firm Telegent Systems said. Mobile television broadcasting, the hottest ...
Borders to offer free WiFi service through Verizon starting in October Bookseller Borders Group Inc. said Tuesday it signed a deal with Verizon Communications Inc. to provide free WiFi service in "virtually all" of its more than 500 stores around the country. ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Vodafone Egypt said on Tuesday it expected to add 100,000 mobile broadband customers in 2009, taking its total broadband client base to 160,000. Chief Executive Officer Hatem Dowidar told Reuters this was "a very high rate of growth" in ...
PARIS (Reuters) - "Dongle" may sound a bit goofy, but the innocent-seeming technology is emerging as one of the biggest challenges to the mobile telecoms industry in coming years. Alongside smartphones, these 3G cards or sticks that allow people to get online ...
